"Law Student News and Views," a panel to be presented at the Fall Meeting of the American Bar Association's Section on State and Local Government on Friday, October 13, 2006, in Madison, will feature presentations by three students who conducted research at the UW Law School over the past year.

The panel, which will be held from 8 to 9 a.m at the Monona Terrace Hilton, was organized by UW Law School Professor Arthur McEvoy with the help of the students and the ABA Section.

Vilan Odekar, a third-year law student, will present a paper titled "New Governance and the Green Tier Charters: Benchmarks for Evaluating the Process."  Odekar co-authored the paper with UW students Scott Bernstein, Kate Davis, and David Loring for a seminar led by Professor Louise Trubek last year.  The essay won the annual prize for the best essay in Environmental Law awarded by the Wisconsin State Bar Environmental Law Section.

Alan Turnquist, a third-year law student who is also a graduate student in Agriculture and Applied Economics at UW-Madison, will present a paper titled "Public Information and Environmental Assessment in Airport Expansion Projects."  The paper is the result of independent research that Turnquist did with Professor McEvoy over the past year.

Jeff Rudd, a lawyer who is now a doctoral student in Environmental Studies at Madison, will present his work on "Institutional Competence and Economic Analysis in Environmental Law."  The paper, which Rudd wrote as a term paper for a seminar led by Professor McEvoy and Professor Victoria Nourse last year, has been accepted for publication by Ecology Law Quarterly.

Submitted by on October 16, 2006

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